These Paleolithic Skulls Had Odd Tooth Damage. One Anthropologist Says It was Caused By Cheek Piercings.
The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s ...
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Researchers Stunned to Discover a 35,000-Year-Old Ritual Complex of Hunter-Gatherers Inside an Israeli Cave
Researchers Stunned to Discover a 35,000-Year-Old Ritual Complex of Hunter-Gatherers Inside an Israeli Cave Researchers ...
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Did These Ice Age Europeans Wear Cheek Piercings?
Wear patterns on the teeth of skeletons found in Central Europe suggest children as young as 6 may have been wearing labrets ...
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Prehistoric artifacts from Israel prove our ancestors made art 100,000 years ago
New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...
Ancient engravings shed light on early human symbolic thought and complexity in Levantine Middle Paleolithic
A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, ...
Archaeologists Sifted Through an Ancient Lakebed—And Found 1.5-Million-Year-Old Tools
A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...
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Cannibalism existed 18,000 years ago in Poland, human remains consumed ‘systematically’
A new study examines the mortuary practices of Magdalenian people in Poland, including evidence of cannibalism.
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Hundreds of Stone Age, ancient objects found during pilot excavation stun explorers
A groundbreaking pilot excavation in the Iraqi desert uncovered over 850 Stone Age artifacts up to 1.5 million years old, shedding new light on human evolution in the Arabian Peninsula. An ...
Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have had cheek piercings, even as children
A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as ...
Ice Age Kids Sported Cheek Piercings, 29,000-Year-Old Teeth Suggest
Strange wear marks on the teeth of Paleolithic people in Central Europe have long puzzled scientists, but new research may ...
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Paleolithic ingenuity: 13,000-year-old 3D map discovered in France
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A 13,000-year-old three-dimensional map has been discovered in a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin, potentially the oldest of its kind. This ...
Hand axes discovered in Iraqi desert may go back 1.5 million years
Ella Egberts (VUB) traveled to Iraq in November and December as part of a pilot project to search for archaeological surface ...